Symptoms of True Love

"Symptoms of True Love"
Single by Tracie Spencer
from the album Tracie Spencer
Released February 17, 1988 (1988-02-17)
Format CD single
Audio cassette
Maxi single
Recorded 1987
Genre Freestyle, new jack swing, dance-pop
Length 4:21
Label Capitol
Writer(s) Irmgard Klarmann, Felix Weber
Producer(s) Ron Kersey
Tracie Spencer singles chronology
"Hide and Seek"
(1988)
"Symptoms of True Love"
(1988)
"Imagine"
(1988)

"Symptoms of True Love" is the second single from Tracie Spencer's self-titled debut album. The single was released in 1988. It was written by German composer team Irmgard Klarmann and Felix Weber. Unlike her first single (which was a ballad), this song was an uptempo club/dance track. The theme of the song focuses on Spencer discovering that she is suffering from "symptoms of true love" and lists the causes.

Chart information

"Symptoms of True Love" was Tracie's first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 38. On the Hot Black Singles chart, it peaked at a respectable number 11.

Music video

The music video for "Symptoms of True Love" is rather simple and it was made in March 1988, and it shows Spencer and a group of friends dancing and grooving along to the song. The video's set features comic book-style art in the vein of Roy Lichtenstein.


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